AS400 Contracts

IBM AS/400
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AS400 over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 634 795
Rank change year-on-year +67 +161 -99
Contract jobs citing AS400 17 63 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.11% 0.061%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.34% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 31 17
10th Percentile £413 £300 £315
25th Percentile £414 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% +7.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £433 £640 £586
90th Percentile £436 £760 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate - £375 £338
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

AS400 falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

AS400
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AS400 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AS400 in the UK

AS400
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AS400.

Daily rate trend for AS400 in the UK

AS400
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AS400.

Hourly rate trend for AS400 in the UK

AS400
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AS400 within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +58 15 £423 -11.05% 6
London +67 12 £423 -17.16% 2
UK excluding London +17 3 - - 3
West Midlands +18 2 - -
Midlands +14 2 - -
Work from Home +74 1 - - 3
North of England +16 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 1

AS400
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) LAN
1 2 (11.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Talend Open Studio
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Synon
2 1 (5.88%) Visual LANSA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Banking
2 6 (35.29%) Private Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Back Office
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Local Government
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) RPG Developer
3 5 (29.41%) AS400 Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Synon Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Support
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (5.88%) IT Support
6 1 (5.88%) LANSA Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) Migration Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Technologist
6 1 (5.88%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) iSeries
2 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Change Control
1 4 (23.53%) Fintech
1 4 (23.53%) Portfolio Management
1 4 (23.53%) Wealth Management
2 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
2 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Batch Scheduling
3 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (11.76%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.88%) Coaching
4 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
4 1 (5.88%) Data Transformation
4 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.88%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) RPG
3 4 (23.53%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) IBM
2 4 (23.53%) SAP
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) LANSA
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) Talend